Hoodwinked

An economic hit man reveals why the
world financial markets imploded, and what we need to do to remake them

Broadway Business -- John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic
meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry
collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small
businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far
greater disease. In his former life as an economic hit man, he was on the
front lines both as an observer and a perpetrator of events, once confined
only to the third world, that have now sent the United States - and in fact
the entire planet - spiraling toward disaster.

Here, Perkins pulls back the curtain on the real cause of the current global
financial meltdown. He shows how we've been hoodwinked by the CEOs who run
the corporatocracy - those few corporations that control the vast amounts of
capital, land, and resources around the globe - and the politicians they
manipulate. These corporate fat cats, Perkins explains, have sold us all on
what he calls predatory capitalism, a misguided form of geopolitics and
capitalism that encourages a widespread exploitation of the many to benefit
a small number of the already very wealthy. Their arrogance, gluttony, and
mismanagement have brought us to this perilous edge. The solution is not a
"return to normal."